Horrible to Write?

[david_p2002ca]

No: HPFGUIDX 41434

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:

> Other lesser characters will die as well, I'm sure.  But I think 
the two
> "big" deaths will be Hagrid and Ron.

I'm more inclined to think there will be different 'big' deaths.

There have been repeated references to Dumbledore being the only 
wizard Voldemort feared; repeated references to Horwarts being safe 
due to Dumbledore's presence.  I'd categorize that as foreshadowing.

I don't see Dumbledore surviving book 6 - leaving Hogwarts open to 
Voldemort's final attack in book 7.

And I believe book 7 will have a fallen hero (a difference between 
British and American literature); it would not surprise me in the 
least for the final chapter to end with Ron and Hermione gazing into 
the Mirror of Erised, joined by their fallen friend, the boy with the 
lightning bolt scar.

David P.